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	House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Often, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called a 'senate'.
		House of Representatives is the title of most, but not all, of the state legislatures of the States of the United States of America.
		Under apartheid, the House of Representatives was the house for South Africa's mixed race 'Coloured' community, in the tricameral parliament of 1984-1994.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Representatives (229 words)

	House of Representatives (Fiji) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Fiji's Parliament.
		The House of Representatives in its present form dates from 10 October 1970, when Fiji attained independence from the United Kingdom.
		Membership of the House of Representatives was increased from 36 to 52 in 1972, and to 70 in 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Fiji) (774 words)

	House of Representatives - Fiji Government Online
		The House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the Fiji Parliament, sometimes called the Lower House.
		The main function of the House of Representatives is the consideration and passing of new laws and amendments to existing ones.
		The Mace is the symbol of the authority of the House and that of the Speaker.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/page_145.shtml (1092 words)

	House of Representatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		House of Representatives is a name used by many countries for the lower house of a bicameral legislature.
		The corresponding upper house is typically called a 'senate'.
		Philippines – House of Representatives of the Philippines
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/ho/house_of_representatives.html (217 words)

	Casino Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The "House of Representatives" is the name of the lower house of parliament in the following countries:
		Antigua and Barbuda — House of Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda
		Puerto Rico – House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
	www.casinoencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=House_of_Representatives (261 words)

	Fiji (12/04)
		Fiji is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, although it remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.
		The Government of Fiji reported that growth was driven by a recovery in the tourism industry as well as by improved performance in mining, the harvesting and processing of mahogany, and fresh fish exports.
		Fiji's contributions to UN peacekeeping are unique for a nation of its size.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/f/40585.htm (3007 words)

	House of Representatives Annual Report 2000
		The House amended 43 pieces of legislation during its consideration of those bills, requiring the amendments to be incorporated and the bills to be reprinted prior to transmittal to the Senate.
		House of Representatives: Guide to Procedures is a companion volume to the standing orders of the House and falls between the advanced information provided in House of Representatives Practice and the basic text of the Infosheet series.
		House Update – As part of its service to Members, the department introduced a concise bulletin providing Members with up-to-date information on the services they are able to access in fulfilling their representative role as well as news on recent developments within the Parliament.
	www.aph.gov.au /house/pubs/ar99-00/chapter3.htm (10709 words)

	Fiji (09/05)
		The Senate is appointed; the House of Representatives is elected.
		Fiji's two largest exports are sugar and garments, with each accounting for about one-quarter of export revenue in 2004--roughly $145 million each.
		Fiji is host for the secretariat of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum, as well as a number of other prestigious regional organizations.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1834.htm (3629 words)

	Articles - Constitution of Fiji: Chapter 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the office of the President is a largely honorary one, modeled on the British Monarchy, the Cabinet officially exercises executive authority in his name, and the President's status as a part of the Parliament is the source of the power of the Cabinet to initiate legislation.
		The House of Representatives may override a Senate veto, provided that the same bill was passed by two consecutive sessions of the House of Representatives with an interval of at least six months.
		As part of the compromise of 1970, agreed upon by the main political parties representing the two major communities, a Senate was established with 22 members, with 8 nominated by the Great Council of Chiefs, 7 by the Prime Minister, 6 by the Leader of the Opposition, and 1 by the Council of Rotuma.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Constitution_of_Fiji:_Chapter_6 (3484 words)

	The History of Fiji
		The pattern of colonialism in Fiji during the following century was similar to that in many other British possessions: the pacification of the countryside, the spread of plantation agriculture, and the introduction of Indian indentured labor.
		Fiji was readmitted to the Commonwealth in October.
		Fiji's Supreme Court is expected to rule on the make up of the Cabinet in 2004.
	www.factrover.com /history/Fiji_history.html (866 words)

	Map Zones : Fiji Map
		Fiji is strategically located for air travelers from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Japan and is a major destination for tourist cruises.
		Fiji, endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, though still with a large subsistence sector.
		Fiji, archipelago and independent republic in the South Pacific Ocean, part of Melanesia, and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/fiji (2704 words)

	Fiji (12/03)
		Fiji runs a persistently large trade deficit, although its tourism revenue yields a services surplus, which keeps the current account of its balance of payments roughly in balance.
		Fiji's two largest exports are sugar and garments, which each accounted for about one-quarter of export revenue in 2002--roughly $130 million each.
		Fiji is considering contributing a unit of peacekeeping troops to the U.S.-led effort in post-war Iraq for deployment in late-2003.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/f/35847.htm (3160 words)

	THE SENATE OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
		When Parliament is in session but the House of Representatives has not held a sitting for over two months, the President of the House, at the written request of at least 18 deputies, may arrange a sitting no later than two weeks after the date of the request.
		If the House of Representatives rejects an amendment by the Senate, the bill is returned to it in the version in which it has already been passed by the House.
		If the House sees fit, it may include amendments in a bill that has been rejected or passed by the Senate with modifications that the House has not accepted, which, if they are accepted by the Senate, would be acceptable for the House.
	www.senat.fr /senatsdumonde/english/fidji.html (863 words)

	Fiji - Legislation Process
		After inspecting the Guard of Honour, he is escorted into the Chamber by the Speaker and the President, the Secretary General and the Secretaries to the House of Representatives and the Senate and the Mace-Bearer.
		When a Bill has passed both Houses it is certified by the Secretary-General as having passed the House of Representatives and the Senate and is sent to the President for assent.
		The general purpose of an adjournment debate is to allow Members to air grievances or bring to the attentions of the House matters which may not be brought to the notice of the House otherwise.
	www.appf.org.pe /countries/fiji/legproc.htm (2451 words)

	FIJI: No Winners in the Supreme Court Judgement:
		The Prime Minister contends that the words ‘in proportion to their numbers in the House’ in subsection 99(5) of the Constitution refers to the proportion of the number of seats held by a qualifying party in the House of Representatives to the total membership of the House i.e.
		It is not necessary that a person be a member of the House of Representatives or of the Senate is eligible for appointment as a Minister under section 99(2).
		Answer: The majority opinion is “the FLP is entitled to a number of places in the Cabinet which bears the same proportion to its membership of the House of Representatives as the number of places occupied by the SDL bears to its membership of the House of Representatives”.
	www.saag.org /papers11/paper1057.html (2539 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elections to restore democracy were held in September 2001; the Labour Party, hurt by intra-party fighting and the defection of key figures including Tupeni Baba, won the most votes (34.8 percent), but only 28 of the 71 seats in the House of Representatives (Fiji), four less than the United Fiji Party of Laisenia Qarase.
		Chaudhry's strained relationship with Prime Minister Qarase has prevented the Labour Party from being represented in the Cabinet, despite the constitutional stipulation that any political party with more than eight seats in the House of Representatives is entitled to proportionate representation in the Cabinet.
		On July 18 2003 the Supreme Court of Fiji ruled that Qarase's exclusion of the Labour Party breached the constitution, and demanded that the situation be rectified.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Fiji_Labour_Party (459 words)

	MapZones.com : Fiji History
		European traders and missionaries arrived in the first half of the 19th century, and the resulting disruption led to increasingly serious wars among the native Fijian confederacies.
		The SDL declined to include the largely Indo-Fijian Fiji Labor Party (FLP) in the Cabinet on a legal technicality.
		The 1997 Constitution states that any party receiving 10% or more of the seats in Parliament must be given an opportunity to be described in the Cabinet in proportion to its numbers in the House of Representatives.
	www.mapzones.com /world/pacific/fiji/historyindex.php (333 words)

	Fiji election of 1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the House of Representatives (Fiji)House of Representatives, the coalition won a total of 28 seats to the Alliance's 24, and Timoci BavadraDr Timoci Bavadra/, the leader of the coalition, became Prime Minister.
		(Fiji then had a complex voting system, allocating ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians 22 seats each, with a further 8 reserved for Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities; about half of representatives for each ethnic group represented "communal" constituencies, elected from closed electoral rolls, while the other half represented "national" constituencies, elected by universal suffrage).
		Effective Indo-Fijian domination of the government caused widespread resentment among the ethnic Fijian community, and after less than a month in office, the new government was deposed in on May 14 1987 in a Fiji coups of 1987coup d'état led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Fiji_election_of_1987 (465 words)

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		U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on the Assassination of John F. mcadams.posc.mu.edu
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	Southpac News (December 1998)
		Fourteen PICs sent Ministers or ministerial representatives to participate in the second stage "Ministerial Meeting on the Pacific Response to the ICPD PoA" held in Nadi, Fiji, on 23-24 November 1998.
		Apenisa Kurisaqila, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Fiji Islands.
		Jose Ferraris, UNFPA Representative, Fiji Sub-Regional Office welcomed the delegates and spoke on the close partnership developed between UNFPA and PICs in promoting the implementation of the ICPD PoA.
	www.un.org /popin/regional/asiapac/fiji/news/98dec/mm.htm (173 words)

	ICL - Fiji Constitution
		An infant found abandoned in Fiji is deemed to have been born in Fiji, in the absence of proof to the contrary.
		Each House of the Parliament may act despite a vacancy in its membership, and the presence at, or the participation in, its proceedings of a person not entitled to be a member does not invalidate the proceedings.
		(1) The members of the House of Representatives must, at their first meeting after a general election and whenever the office of Speaker is vacant, elect as Speaker a person who is not a member of the House but who is qualified to be a candidate for election to the House.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/fj00000_.html (18816 words)

	House of Representatives in directory.co.uk
		Representatives - adopted unanimously by 422 votes and 12 abstentions - says the Bush adminstration should call the...
		Representatives to enable the American public to identify, and in some cases contact, their Representative.
		Representatives are equitably distributed among the 50 states.
	www.directory.co.uk /House_of_Representatives.htm (336 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| May 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Fiji: Congress: Politics: Iraq: House of Representatives: Shays ...
		But as chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, he said his role is also to independently gather information to sort out the mixed messages from media and the government on the situation in Iraq.
		His time as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Fiji Islands from 1968 to 1970, he said, taught him the importance of establishing personal contact.
		Shays’ concern for White House credibility underscores a central truth about him and his feeling toward the situation in Iraq: He remains strongly supportive of the U.S. mission.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2021160.html (4148 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fiji became independent in 1970, after nearly a century as a British colony.
		Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century).
		A 1990 constitution favored native Melanesian control of Fiji, but led to heavy Indian emigration; the population loss resulted in economic difficulties, but ensured that Melanesians became the majority.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/fj.html (988 words)

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	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		In Fiji, for example, I was approached by a man in his mid-thirties, asking if I was the Peace Corps Director.
		The man stated that he had recognized me from the news the night before and was very excited that Peace Corps had returned to Fiji.
		I believe that the Peace Corps is well positioned to safely achieve expansion and build upon the successes of the past 43 years.
	wwwc.house.gov /International_Relations/108/vasq032404.htm (5505 words)

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	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
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		Military planners from over 25 countries and representatives from the UN and various non-governmental and international organizations have attended these workshops.
		Since the Asia-Pacific region does not have a regional NATO-like organization, the MPAT and MNF SOP efforts represent the major regional program aimed at developing multinational procedures and maintaining a cadre of multinational military planners using common planning and operating procedures for coalition operations.
	wwwa.house.gov /international_relations/108/far0626.htm (16104 words)

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	Fiji Law: Internet Law Library
		The Internet Law Library, originally the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library (1994-1999), may not provide current information.
		Many now historic Internet resources are now found in the Library along with many still current ones.
		Notice: General site terms and conditions apply to this page.
	www.lawmoose.com /internetlawlib/232.htm (210 words)

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